Unlike typical cruises to these regions, these small yachts can reach the most intimate places. And rather than merely gazing upon the scenery from the rail of a passing cruise ship, you drop anchor often for intimate exploration. Cruising only three to four hours each day allows plenty of time to walk on secluded beaches, ramble next to perpetual ice fields, dream in old growth rain forests, and to take paddle in hand and sea-kayak in misty fjords where peaks towers majestically above you.